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Paper, 'Of two pegs of Roman lead, Domitian, 1 cwt 1 qr 16lbs each, found 1 and a half feet under the surface on Hayshaw Moor near Patelt Bridge' by John Ward

Reference number: L&P/3/185

Date: 1756

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Contains 2 plates.

Subject: Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some considerations on a draught of two large peices of lead, with Roman inscriptions upon them, found several years since in Yorkshire'

Read 1 July 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/185
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1756
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Ink on paper and 2 plates
Page extent
18 pages
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Manuscript

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John Ward

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John Ward, Paper, 'Of two pegs of Roman lead, Domitian, 1 cwt 1 qr 16lbs each, found 1 and a half feet under the surface on Hayshaw Moor near Patelt Bridge' by John Ward, 1756, L&P/3/185, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_185/paper-of-two-pegs-of-roman-lead-domitian-1-cwt-1-qr-16lbs-each-found-1-and-a-half-feet-under-the-surface-on-hayshaw-moor-near-patelt-bridge-by-john-ward, accessed on 23 January 2026

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